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Vaccine approval is a historic moment for the UK

With at least 59,000 deaths in the UK, 1.5 million worldwide, never has a vaccine been in greater need.

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The UK approves the BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The UK’s medicines regulator has approved the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 for emergency use, the companies said today.The UK is the first country to approve the vaccine for widespre

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Mission Sustainable Development

Editor's note: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, is Director of Columbia's Center for Sustainable Develop

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How is the U.S. helping to improve the Chinese innovation economy?

Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. /Getty Editor's note:Djoomart Otorbaev is former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing No

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Generic HIV drug for children to be rolled out in Africa in 2021

A newborn baby is given a dose of the drug AZT, preventative medicine to reduce the risk of HIV passing to him from his mother, who is HIV positive. /Getty Images A strawberry-flavoured tablet

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Women's Rugby World Cup to expand to 16 teams from 2025

Photo of the Women's Rugby World Cup during a past event. /Getty Images The women's edition of the Rugby World Cup will increase from 12 to 16 teams from 2025 onwards, World Rugby announced.A

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AWS brings ECS, EKS services to the data center, open sources EKS

Today at AWS re:Invent, Andy Jassy talked a lot about how companies are making a big push to the cloud, but today’s container-focussed announcements gave a big nod to the data center as the comp

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Qualcomm announces the new Snapdragon 888 chip

Qualcomm kicked off an all-virtual version of its annual summit this morning by announcing the launch of the the Snapdragon 888 platform. The chipmaker is clearly saving some key information for late

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Live updates: Global COVID-19 cases top 63 million

Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have exceeded 63 million, with over 1.4 million fatalities and more than 40.5 million recoveries, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University.Here i

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Surprising insights science provides us about Black Friday and 11.11

Editor's Note: Martin Lindstrom is the author of several New York Times bestselling books. TIME magazine has recognized him as one of the world's most influential people. The article reflects the aut

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Malaria death toll to exceed COVID-19's in sub-Saharan Africa: WHO

Mothers wait for their sick babies to receive treatment at the beginning of the Malaria vaccine implementation pilot programme at Mitundu Community hospital in Malawi's capital district of Lilong

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The Trump administration will add SMIC, China’s largest chipmaker, to its defense blacklist: report

SMIC, one of largest chip makers in the world, is among several companies that the Department of Defense plans to designate as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, reports Reuters. Earli

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This Week in Apps: Snapchat clones TikTok, India bans 43 Chinese apps, more data on App Store commission changes

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications, and the overall app economy.The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 20

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High time for China and the EU to work together

Editor's note:Wang Li is a professor at Jilin University. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.Since 1975 when China and the European Union (EU) establ

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Sidelines | Football dreams left on street

Sidelines is a column by CGTN's Social Media Desk The often-shut side door of an old building, a pair of backpacks or empty soft drink bottles: just a few of the things this columnist and his footbal

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Shanghai International Marathon starts under strict COVID-19 protocols 

The 2020 Shanghai International Marathon, the only Platinum Label road race worldwide to run as usual this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, got underway early Sunday mo

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Shanghai International Marathon starts under strict COVID-19 protocols 

The 2020 Shanghai International Marathon, the only Platinum Label road race worldwide to run as usual this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, got underway early Sunday mo